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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by micaksica on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @11:35PM (#12974306)
I can hardly call myself an expert on the "alt right" either, but the difference is in use of term.

When leftists think "Right wing" in the US think of the Christian theocracy. However, conservatism is only one sect of the right. The right is also reactionary, and the alt-right is definitely reactionary. I'd argue the alt-right fits nicely into Wikipedia's definition of far-right politics [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

Edited because my sarcastic use of tone didn't really have a place in the discussion.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by iopq on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:04AM (#12974494)
That's why it's "alt-right" - because the politics of the alt-right stem from a different source than the far-right theocratic conservatism.

The alt-right are younger neo-reactionaries who are tired of political correctness, tired of the media narrative.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by serge2k on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:04AM (#12976334)
> When leftists think "Right wing" in the US think of the Christian theocracy

Because the republicans have been using that as a very loud base for a long time now.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by aminorex on Friday November 18, 2016 @04:44AM (#12985555)
They have played Christians for a long time, but I suspect they have also over-played their hand, and are losing that support base, mostly via war, corruption, and generally taking the Christians for granted while completely disregarding their core issues, justice, mercy, compassion, &c.
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